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Re: KLBC: Klingon CD



[email protected] on behalf of Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

> >We have {Quj} which means "play a game."  This would probably be better.  
> >{reH} might mean a more general sort of playing, or it might mean an
> >entirely 
> >different sort of playing (like playing a musical instrument, or playing a 
> >recording).
> 
> At the qep'a', Krankor asked MO if he was right in using "reH" for playing
> his guitar (which he did regularly--both playing the guitar AND referring
> to it using "reH", that is).  He said he hoped it was right because if it
> wasn't he had nothing else.  MO replied that "reH" did *not* mean play in
> the sense of playing a musical instrument (leastways, that's what I
> remember).  He didn't volunteer a better word though.

KGT!

"Play an instrument" is handled by {chu'}.  (p.74)

Somewhere in the book, I don't remember where, there's a sentence with 
something like {reH puq} or {reH puqpu'}, translated as "the child [or 
children] plays."

-- 
SuStel
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